Hi,
Carol wrote: " Would it be useful to start from the idea that all that is
potentially knowable is present? Just that we only see minute fractions of
a/the potentially knowable, that is already there?"
Yes, I think this could be a start. Maybe we could formulate fractious
"truths" (certainties less uncertain) and through testing of these in other
situations, places, times arrive at more general "truths" (common
maybe-concepts).
Maybe to escape the finite we should view these fractions/"truths" as
possible pieces in an ever-changing pattern, like a huge kaleidoscope with
an unknown number of pieces of innumerable colour and shapes. So depending
on twirl and angle it presents differing "universal" pictures. Though we can
never be sure if this is the ultimate position of a certain piece or that we
actually have the discovered the ultimate piece for a certain position. That
everything is knowable doesn't mean it's known.
But wouldn't there be a problem with this flexible, non-finite, approach
when it comes to academic research? Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought this is
done from a pre-defined ontological as well as epistemological standpoint.
Cheers (it's evening after all)
Susanne
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